Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870

Question 1

is a World Champion alpine ski racer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is one of the few women to have won World Cup races in all five alpine racing disciplines: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and super combined. In fact, Vonn is the most successful US ski racer in history.

Answer 1

Lindsey Vonn

Question 2

is a male red deer over five years old.
Also female red deer.

Answer 2

hart

hind

Question 3

first screen role was in the daytime soap “As the World Turns”, but her break came with a recurring role in “The Cosby Show” spin-off “A Different World”. Tomei won an Oscar for her delightful performance in “My Cousin Vinny” in 1992.

Answer 3

Marisa Tomei

Question 4

is a 2017 superhero film. It is a “reboot” of the “Spider-Man” series, introducing a new storyline, and new actors to play the main characters.

Answer 4

Spider-Man: Homecoming”

English actor Tom Holland has the title role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, with Marisa Tomei playing Peter’s Aunt May Parker.

Question 5

is a 2017 TV miniseries that is based on a 2014 novel of the same name. It stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley as three women who, while dealing with their own emotional problems, find themselves involved in a murder investigation. I haven’t seen this one, but hear very good things …

Answer 5

Big Little Lies”

Question 6

Greek “P” :

Answer 6

RHO

Rho is the Greek letter that looks just like our Roman letter “p”, although it is equivalent to the Roman letter R. It is the 17th letter in the Greek alphabet.

Question 7

is the largest Arab country in the Middle East and is the world’s largest oil producer, home to the world’s largest oil reserves.

Answer 7

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The Saudi dynasty started in central Arabia in 1744 when the secular leader Muhammad ibn Saud joined forces with the Islamic scholar and Imam, Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab. At the time, Saud was a ruler of a town near Riyadh and he was determined to bring “true” Islam to the Arabian peninsula. Since 1744 the fortunes of the Saudi family have risen and fallen, but it is that same family who rules what we know today as Saudi Arabia.

Question 8

Money in India :

Answer 8

RUPEE

The rupee is a unit of currency used in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan. The term “rupee” comes from the Sanskrit word “rupya”, which once meant “stamped, impressed” and then “coin”.

Question 9

Shorthand writer, for short :

Answer 9

STENO

Stenography is the process of writing in shorthand. The term comes from the Greek “steno” (narrow) and “graphe” (writing).

Question 10

The Jungle Book” bear :

Answer 10

BALOO

“The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling was originally published in 1894, and is a collection of adventure stories or fables featuring the animals of the jungle and a young boy named Mowgli. Baloo is a sloth bear that teaches the cubs of a wolf pack the Law of the Jungle. Baloo’s most challenging pupil however is no lupine, but rather the man-cub Mowgli.

Question 11

Andean pack animals :

Answer 11

LLAMAS

The llama is a camelid mammal very much associated with the Andean cultures. Despite the association with South America, it is thought that the ancestors of the modern llama migrated south from the Great Plains of North America about 40 million years ago.

Question 12

is a Nicaraguan-born, American political strategist and commentator. She is a lifelong Republican who worked for Governor Jeb Bush and for Senator John McCain. However, she was very critical of presidential candidate Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign. She was so vehement in her anti-Trump views that she ended up voting for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the election.

Answer 12

Ana Navarro

Question 13

is a journalist from Denver who joined CNN in 2013. She took over as anchor of CNN’s weekend show “CNN Newsroom” in 2017.

Answer 13

Ana Cabrera

Question 14

Sigmund Freud created a structural model of the human psyche, breaking it into these three parts:

Answer 14

the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is that part of the psyche containing the basic instinctual drives. The ego seeks to please the id by causing realistic behavior that benefits the individual. The superego almost has a parental role, contradicting the id by introducing critical thinking and morals to behavioral choices.

Question 15

is a major city on the that is home to the busiest container port in the world. The name ” translates as “Upon-the-Sea”.

Answer 15

Shanghai - east coast of China

Question 16

The main characteristic defining this species is the tendency to swarm under certain circumstances. Those circumstances are usually drought conditions followed by rapid growth of vegetation

Answer 16

a locust

Some species of grasshoppers are known as locusts.

Question 17

In Italian, an hour and a day).

Answer 17

ora

In Italian, an “ora” (hour) is 1/24 of “un giorno” (a day).

Question 18

The Latin word for year is “

Answer 18

annus” (plural “anni”). We often see it used in Latin phrases, but usually with a different spelling. In “anno Domini”, the “anno” is the ablative case of “annus” as the phrase means “in the year of the Lord”. Another example is “per annum”, in which “annum” is the accusative case as the literal translation of the phrase is “during the year”.

Question 19

Party game also known as “Werewolf” :

Answer 19

MAFIA
Mafia (also “Werewolf”) is a party game that came out of Russia in 1987. It is described as a social deduction game, and players are divided into two teams: the villagers and the mafiosi, with the teams working to eliminate each other. The game sounds quite complex to me (so I can’t explain the rules here), but it seems very intriguing …

Question 20

Icy moon of Jupiter :

Answer 20

EUROPA
So far, Jupiter is known to have 67 moons, more than any other planet in the Solar System. Not it is Saturn !!!!!

The four largest moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) were discovered by Galileo in 1610, making them the first objects found that did not orbit either the Earth or the Sun.

Question 21

” is a song by rapper Eminem (featuring Dido) that was recorded in 2000. The title refers to a fictional Eminem fan who becomes obsessed with the rapper, and who grows irate when his letters to his idol go unanswered. Stan’s final act is to make a voice recording as he drives into a river, with his pregnant girlfriend locked in the trunk. One of the legacies of the song is that “it” is now used as a slang term for an obsessed and maniacal fan.

Answer 21

Stan

Question 22

Fans of Bieber call themselves “”.

Answer 22

Beliebers

Question 23

He wrote the piece in 1880 as a commemoration of Russia’s successful defense in face of an invasion by Napoleon’s French Army and allies

Answer 23

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s famous “1812 Overture” is more correctly called “The Year 1812 (festival overture in E-flat major)”

The “1812” is renowned for its use of cannon fire, ringing bells and a robust brass fanfare at its climax.

Question 24

This is loot, stolen property, and a term that started out as criminal slang in England in the 1830s. “
also the name given to the promotional freebies available at some events.

Answer 24

Swag
That said, there’s an urban myth that the promotional version of “swag” is an acronym standing for “stuff we all get”.

Question 25

Conagra cooking spray brand :

Answer 25

PAM
PAM cooking spray was introduced in 1961 by Leon Rubin and Arthur Meyerhoff. The name “PAM” is an acronym … standing for “Product of Arthur Meyerhoff”. Who’d a thunk it …?

Question 26

Ned Flanders lives next door to Homer Simpson on TV’s “The Simpsons”. Ned was married to her
Also children

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Maude, with whom he had two children Rod and Todd. Maude died in an accident involving a T-shirt cannon. Ned is voiced by actor Harry Shearer, and has been around since the very first episode aired in 1989.

Question 27

was a walled city that served as a port for the major Mayan city of Coba in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula. It now lies in ruins, as the city was abandoned towards the end of the 16th century. The ruins are a popular destination for tourists.

Answer 27

Tulum

Question 28

first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :

Answer 28

EDITH
Edith Wharton was a novelist and designer from New York City. Wharton was a wealthy woman and built her own estate in Lenox, Massachusetts called the Mount. My wife and I had the privilege of touring the Mount a few years ago, and there we saw evidence of what design meant to Wharton. Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making her the first woman to be so honored.

It was the fourth year of the Prizes’ existence. “The Age of Innocence,” Wharton’s book

Question 29

Chemical concentration measurement :

Answer 29

TITER
Remember those titrations we did in the chemistry lab at school? They were to measure the concentration of solutions, also known as the solution’s titer.

Question 30

Novel characters
It’s this character from his spoken of in the line
“Reader I forgave him at the moment and on the spot “

Answer 30

Mr Rochester from Jane eyre
Line before reader I married him
Charlotte bronte

Question 31

This , also “spinach dock”, is a herbaceous plant found in grasslands. It is also grown as a leaf vegetable and herb. The leaves have a distinctive sharp, sour taste.

Answer 31

Sorrel

Question 32

Drivers License” singer

Answer 32

Rodrigo : OLIVIA
Olivia Rodrigo is a singer-songwriter who rose to prominence with her 2021 song “Drivers License”, which she also co-wrote. In 2021, Rodrigo played her part in a White House program promoting COVID-19 vaccinations among young people.

Question 33

This name “” is a Latin variant of the German name for the country, “Österreich”. “Österreich” itself means “Eastern borderlands”, a reference to the country’s history as a prefecture of neighboring Bavaria to the west.

Answer 33

Austria

Question 34

She is the daughter of farmer Marcus Mouse. Two of her grandparents are Marshal Mouse and Matilda Mouse. Minnie also has an Uncle Mortimer Mouse, as well as twin nieces Millie and Melody Mouse.

Answer 34

Minnie Mouse

Minnie’s boyfriend is Mickey Mouse.